Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique

A new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate.

In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. Singer concentrates on questions about appearance and reality, the visual and the literary, and the interplay between communication as a goal and alienation as a hazard in films of every sort. In three exemplary chapters, he provides suggestive readings of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, and Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. Reality Transformed will interest the general reader as well as students in all fields related to film studies.

Author: Irving Singer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 08/25/2000
Series: Irving Singer Library
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.59w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780262692489
Revised Edition